Using the example of literary works, the most important economic concepts and concepts, key episodes of world economic and financial history, financial schemes are considered. The risks of overseas trade will be discussed using the example of “Sinbad the Sailor”, we will learn about bankruptcy schemes from the works of Balzac, and the hardships of debtor's prison - leafing through Dickens's novels. Using Dreiser as an example, we will analyze the connections between corruption and large fortunes, we will be able to judge the era of prosperity of the 1920s from the works of Maugham, Sinclair and Dos Passos, we will survive the Great Depression together with Steinbeck, we will analyze the mortgage crisis from the plays of Ostrovsky and Chekhov. 16 chapters - 16 economic plots. The book is of interest to economists and financiers interested in literature, for philologists thinking about economics, as well as for any thoughtful reader.